You can struggle for years to get a foot in the door with Hollywood producers--or you can take a page from the book that offers proven advice from twenty-one of the industry's best and brightest! In this tenth anniversary edition, "The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters, 2nd Edition" peers into the lives and workspaces of screenwriting greats--including Terry Rossio (the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise), Aline Brosh McKenna ("Morning Glory"), Bill Marsilii ("Deja Vu"), Derek Haas and Michael Brandt ("Wanted"), and Tony Gilroy (the "Bourne" franchise). You will learn best practices to fire up your writing process and your career, such as:

• Be Comfortable with Solitude
• Commit to a Career, Not Just One Screenplay
• Be Aware of Your Muse's Favorite Activities
• Write Terrible First Drafts
• Don't Work for Free
• Write No Matter What

This indispensable handbook will help you hone your craft by living, breathing, and scripting the life you want!

Karl Iglesias breaks new ground by focusing on the psychology of the reader. Based on his acclaimed classes at UCLA Extension, Writing for Emotional Impact goes beyond the basics and argues that Hollywood is in the emotion-delivery business, selling emotional experiences packaged in movies and TV shows. Iglesias not only encourages you to deliver emtional impact on as many pages as possible, he shows you how, offering hundreds of dramatic techniques to take your writing to the professional level.